WEEK END...is coming!


 
On April 21, 1990, "WEEK END" was released as the third single in the up coming series of releases. This song was also a standard in the live shows of X JAPAN so it is very familiar to the fans ♪ as being a very much loved song from X's collection tracks,

· WEEK END (NEW VERSION)
· ENDLESS RAIN (LIVE VERSION)

 "ENDLESS RAIN" was a single cut from the first album "RED" (KURENAI) and kept the same way was registered in the first place, however I can't say the same thing about "WEEK END" which has been greatly changed as the musical arrangement speaking about,

was a whole new recording now ♪, much more suitable and closer to what Yoshiki really wanted this song to sound like...I do love the original old version too although...
Comparative with the original version which included a guitar solo part, in the new version this is completely removed

or more likely was substitute with a piano performance of same musical piece performed by Yoshiki along with a Philharmonic orchestra ( I guess this was a kind of foreplay for Carnegie Hall...in a very unconscious and timid way obviously ) anyway this intervention and twist of the song,

made Week End a more dramatically-melodious piece, maybe this is the reason in 1990s WEEK END was top selection at "FAN's CHOICE" in the surveillance performed to enable the selection for the X Japan Album "X JAPAN BEST" (which happened in 2001) . The debate was to include the original version with Guitar solo or the version with Yoshiki's piano performance.

Although the vote was quite tight, both of the versions being almost equal appreciated, the one chosen to be imprinted on the new Album was the altered version including Yoshiki's performance . All together, RED, ENDLESS RAIN ,X and WEEK END were performed on Feb 4th 1990 at the Nippon Budokan Fest. X Japan's performance raised the spirits so high and stir the crowd in a fantastic way, the fans engaged with the band singing along in a comune chorus song after song transforming that performance in a very impressive, unforgettable live show.

The vibes send all way around were so strong that both band and their fans become one unit, something strong and unbreakable...we've staid like that ever since, at list...some of us we did, sometimes is hard to believe in the untouchable...but this doesn't mean it isn't there. Maybe we should have more faith, maybe we should catch them if they fall instead of counting the feathers from their tore down wings...

Anyway this First Press Release single has also a presentation booklet and a suicidal comment...damn depression...I wonder why they keep writing so much about death, none of them admits in believing suicide is an option they have in mind...yet I must say with sadness 2 of 7 prof them wrong...accidental or not, death severed 2 loved Xs...maybe God is a fan too and wanted them to perform a privite live...is crap forget what I just said. Sometimes I say things out of wrath out of longing to...I mean, the world is full of garbage,low class people...TAIJI and HIDE were such values...why they need to go like this ?

THANK YOU , for finding time to read this, for your support and tolerance, but most of all THANK YOU for remembering the good days When HIDE's smile and playful mode made a whole show, when TAIJI's bass was something hard to be competing with...when X...all X was performing on same stage...long ago, almost forgotten...once upon a dream folded out in memories...